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Jiang defines simony as the church's profitable sale of holy relics, many of them fake, to the highest bidder.
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A student says fortune tellers shrink a population's imagination, and Jiang agrees while adding that many do it for profit.
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He argues that AI firms survive by unloading infrastructure costs onto retail investors, governments, and anyone except the operators who keep the upside.
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Jiang interprets BIS support for Nazi Germany as evidence that transnational capital is amoral and funds whatever makes money.
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Transnational capital plans decades ahead and tries to create chaos because chaos generates profit.
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Transnational capital is said to care about profit rather than ideology, which is why it could work with Bolsheviks despite anti-capitalist rhetoric.
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Carthage is modeled as a merchant culture where luck, profit, wealth accumulation, superstition, and sacrifice reflect the values of business people.
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In Jiang’s model, such groups cannot stop imperial decline but can accelerate events and position themselves to profit from it.
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"okay so this is um another one of Donny's um pirates against the church against church corruption okay so the crime the sin that..."
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"fortune teller if you become a famous fortune teller the net effect is you using the total amount of imagination that that you know..."
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"...and also a lot of these fortune tellers are doing for profit right they often do it to make money yes yeah because uh..."
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"...anyone except yourself, and you're the one who is pocketing the profits, right?"
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"好的, 我想 要 明 确 一些 关 于 秘 密 社 会 的 事情 所以, 秘 密 社 会 的 观 点 是 秘..."
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"他们 只 能 做 的是 秘 密 社 会 能 更 快 地 在 市 场 上 正 确 执 行 对 吗? 为..."
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"Okay, so what this means is this. In this speech is Hitler promised independence from the global financial order controlled by the British. Okay...."
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"...to create as much chaos as possible because in chaos, there's profit. Like if you're sitting around doing nothing, you can't make any money,..."
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"...how we need to anticipate world events if we are to profit tremendously from them. OK, so I don't think it's a global conspiracy...."
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"...And the kind of argument is, actually, transnational capital cares about profit. They don't care about ideology. All right? What drives them is money,..."
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"We just have to do what we need in order to obtain power. Then we can create our socialist paradise. Okay? All right? All..."
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"The scheme goes, it collapses basically. The last reason is, we have to remember, that it doesn't matter if the Ukrainians are losing or..."
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